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Scientists discover lost world of early ancestors in billion-year-old rock
Eukaryotes have a complex cell structure that includes mitochondria – known as the powerhouse of the cell, and a nucleus that acts as the control and information centre

Wed, 07 Jun, 2023

Early humans in Europe were making fires at least 250,000 years ago – scientists
Early humans in Europe were making fires at least 250,000 years ago – scientists
Newly gathered evidence suggests the European ancestors were making and controlling fire for activities such as cooking, heating and to defend their home

Thu, 18 May, 2023

Battle to reclaim skeleton of Napoleon's horse for North Cork appears to be lost
Battle to reclaim skeleton of Napoleon's horse for North Cork appears to be lost
The National Army Museum in Britain has refused to budge on calls to repatriate Marengo to North Cork, where it is believed the horse hailed from 

Sun, 30 Apr, 2023

Campaign to restore Waterford train station, scene of shootout during War of Independence
Campaign to restore Waterford train station, scene of shootout during War of Independence
The building at Durrow in Stradbally fell into a state of disrepair over the years due to a lack of investment

Wed, 19 Apr, 2023

Maeve Higgins: Migration is a much messier story than Biden likes to portray
Maeve Higgins: Migration is a much messier story than Biden likes to portray
Earlier this year, the Biden administration ramped up efforts to stop migrants from crossing the US border

Sat, 08 Apr, 2023

The Irish Famine, 1845-1849, (1900).
Joyce Fegan: Action needed over petty wars of words in housing
'It's some trajectory, to go from no homeless families in 2012, to where we now find ourselves in 2023'

Fri, 07 Apr, 2023

Archives: Why should building be so much dearer in Cork than elsewhere?
Archives: Why should building be so much dearer in Cork than elsewhere?
One hundred years ago, the Cork Examiner published a series of opinion pieces by a contributor known as 'Periscope', highlighting a range of social and political issues, some of which are as relevant today as they were back then

Wed, 04 Jan, 2023

Winter Solstice at Newgrange will not be streamed this year 
Winter Solstice at Newgrange will not be streamed this year 
The OPW said 'the possibility of live streaming future Solstice events is being kept under review'

Thu, 15 Dec, 2022

Seanad centenary commemorates 'place for reasoned debate'
Seanad centenary commemorates 'place for reasoned debate'
Proposed changes to the Seanad "too often suggest that it does not serve us well", the Taoiseach says, telling a commemorative sitting of the chamber that "today is not a time to dwell on" reforming the upper house.

Mon, 12 Dec, 2022

Dublin Monument, Ireland
OPW takes in over €7m from   national monuments this year
The Rock of Cashel is one of the biggest money-spinners for the OPW since charges were reintroduced at monuments

Sun, 09 Oct, 2022

Clodagh Finn: Let me show you why Ireland's Heritage Week is my favourite week of the year
Clodagh Finn: Let me show you why Ireland's Heritage Week is my favourite week of the year
Events in West Cork celebrating Ellen Hutchins, just one small part of the national event, illustrate the wealth of discovery and fun that's out there for all of us during Heritage Week

Wed, 17 Aug, 2022

Trailblazing beours: A feminist history of Cork
Trailblazing beours: A feminist history of Cork
Women's historical contributions to Cork's history have long been ignored. A new walking tour around the Rebel City is changing that narrative

Tue, 09 Aug, 2022

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Band Aid inspired by campaigner's efforts in famine-era Skibbereen, Geldof to tell history festival
Bob Geldof is to tell audiences at the West Cork History Festival this weekend how the depiction of famine conditions near Skibbereen inspired Band Aid.

Wed, 03 Aug, 2022

Portrait Of Protector
Irish Examiner view: Difficult subject for a relaunch
Cromwell’s notorious legacy has been questioned and he may have been more accepting of other faiths than previously thought

Wed, 03 Aug, 2022

Expedition company charging €230k to visit dissolving Titanic wreck
Expedition company charging €230k to visit dissolving Titanic wreck
For those 110 years, the wreck has sat almost four kilometres below water, near Newfoundland

Fri, 15 Apr, 2022

330-million-year-old burrows discovered in the Burren, Co Clare 
330-million-year-old burrows discovered in the Burren, Co Clare 
The burrows date back to 100 million years before the appearance of the first dinosaurs

Tue, 29 Mar, 2022

John A Murphy: One of Ireland's foremost public intellectuals
John A Murphy: One of Ireland's foremost public intellectuals
The Macroom professor who passed away last month at the age of 95 was a leading historian who worked out of UCC

Sun, 20 Mar, 2022

DENIS SCANNELL
Islands of Ireland: There's 5,000 years of wild history to be found on Fota Island
There are several fulacht fia on the western end of the island and towards the centre there are outlines of a structure resembling a Bronze Age mortuary house

Fri, 18 Mar, 2022

War of Independence: A podcast series with Mick Clifford
War of Independence: A podcast series with Mick Clifford
To mark the War of Independence, the Irish Examiner is publishing a four-part podcast series focussing on some of the events from those turbulent times.

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Council unveils plans for revamp of Michael Collins assassination site at Béal na Bláth
Council unveils plans for revamp of Michael Collins assassination site at Béal na Bláth
Those behind the project say it will allow visitors to the location 'the chance to experience the landscape and feel what it was like in 1922 when the ambush took place'

Tue, 01 Feb, 2022

Michael Collins Arrives at Dublin Castle
How the Examiner reported the handover of Dublin Castle, 100 years ago today
Dublin Castle was handed over by British forces to the Irish Provisional Government on January 16, 1922, following the signing of the Anglo-Irish Treaty, which brought to an end the Irish War of Independence against British rule

Sun, 16 Jan, 2022

'Open, reflective debate' urged at Treaty centenary
'Open, reflective debate' urged at Treaty centenary
Taoiseach tells commemorative conference at Dublin Castle that there is a 'delicate balance between appropriate commemoration and the promotion of a fixed national narrative'

Sun, 16 Jan, 2022

Alison O'Connor: Challenges of a shared island will take us far beyond our comfort zones
Alison O'Connor: Challenges of a shared island will take us far beyond our comfort zones
A public opinion poll has set us a challenge: If we want a united Ireland, how do we think we will get there, and what will do to achieve it? 

Fri, 17 Dec, 2021

'Dockers deserve recognition' - Plans to commemorate Cork's docklands' rich history
'Dockers deserve recognition' - Plans to commemorate Cork's docklands' rich history
Cork City Council heard the docklands redevelopment presents an opportunity to recognise the contribution of Dunlops, Fords and shipping to the area

Thu, 16 Dec, 2021

Fergus Finlay: To blink, to ink: I feel for Collins and the pressure he was under in 1921
Fergus Finlay: To blink, to ink: I feel for Collins and the pressure he was under in 1921
One hundred years on from the signing of the Anglo-Irish Treaty it is worth recalling that tactics often matter more than substance when negotiating with the British

Tue, 07 Dec, 2021

Sinn Fein Peace Delegates
From waiters to administrators: Remembering all the men and women of the Treaty
Most of the 70 Irish people who set out to win the peace 100 years ago today — including key administrators such as Kathleen McKenna — have been forgotten. But now their descendants are setting out to tell their extraordinary stories

Mon, 06 Dec, 2021

Cork's Nano Nagle Place wins prestigious European museum award
Cork's Nano Nagle Place wins prestigious European museum award
Nano Nagle Place was chosen for both its commemoration of the pioneering educational work of Nano Nagle herself, and its ongoing mission to provide support and care for people in need

Fri, 03 Dec, 2021

The Mick Clifford Podcast: 100 years on, what is the legacy of the Anglo-Irish Treaty?
The Mick Clifford Podcast: 100 years on, what is the legacy of the Anglo-Irish Treaty?
Did the Treaty really represent, as Michael Collins claimed at the time, the freedom to achieve freedom?

Fri, 03 Dec, 2021

Béal na Bláth civil war site to receive significant upgrade
Béal na Bláth civil war site to receive significant upgrade
Cork County Council's heritage officer, Conor Nelligan, believes that next year's commemoration “will attract national and international attention"

Wed, 01 Dec, 2021

Lindsey Earner-Byrne: Women’s history has demonstrated that silence makes a noise of its own
Lindsey Earner-Byrne: Women’s history has demonstrated that silence makes a noise of its own
When Lindsey Earner-Byrne, the country’s first Professor of Irish Gender History, was helping Boy George uncover his Irish background, she discovered a cousin she didn’t know she had, she tells Clodagh Finn

Sat, 20 Nov, 2021

Clodagh Finn: Canoe travel, lamp-lit operations, snake bites — a witness to a lost world
Clodagh Finn: Canoe travel, lamp-lit operations, snake bites — a witness to a lost world
The work of surgeon and later psychiatrist Patricia Horne, who died on October 29, is widely admired

Wed, 10 Nov, 2021

Music - ABBA - European & Australian Tour - Gothenburg, Sweden
From Eurovision to the West End: Key events from Abba’s history
Abba have released Voyage, their first studio album in nearly 40 years.

Fri, 05 Nov, 2021

Kieran McCarthy: What lies beneath - Digging up Cork’s past
Kieran McCarthy: What lies beneath - Digging up Cork’s past
Will the discovery on the site of the former Nancy Spain’s pub on Barrack Street give us an insight into Cork’s murky past? Or is it something less sinister? Kieran McCarthy reports

Sun, 24 Oct, 2021

Elaine Loughlin: Once revolutionary, fallen Soldiers of Destiny now tinker at the edges
Elaine Loughlin: Once revolutionary, fallen Soldiers of Destiny now tinker at the edges
Fianna Fáil has strayed so far from the progressive social and economic programme it was built on that it is little wonder a whole generation is failing to identify with the party

Tue, 19 Oct, 2021

Bloomfield Belfast auction
Michael Collins's stick goes behind bar in Dublin pub
The silver-tipped stick went on sale last Tuesday at Bloomfield, fetching €60,000, a record for the auction house

Mon, 04 Oct, 2021

Clodagh Finn: Founder of Ladies’ Land League, Anna Parnell, to get poignant homecoming
Clodagh Finn: Founder of Ladies’ Land League, Anna Parnell, to get poignant homecoming
If anyone deserves a central place in history, it is the sister of Charles Stewart Parnell who mobilised ordinary women to take real action against landlord rule

Wed, 15 Sep, 2021

WORLD TRADE FIREBALL
TP O’Mahony: Dark outcomes when religion and politics fuse
Rulers have always been cognisant of the importance of having religion on their side, writes TP O’Mahony.

Fri, 10 Sep, 2021

Cork schoolgirl's class history project becomes RTÉ documentary
Cork schoolgirl's class history project becomes RTÉ documentary
What began life as a Cork schoolgirl's class history project has now become the latest podcast from RTÉ's award winning "Doc on One" series.

Sat, 28 Aug, 2021

Heather Humphreys
Time will tell if coalition was 'right decison' for Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael - Humphreys 
Heather Humphreys admitted that the Government has made mistakes in the past year, but they also have taken ownership of those mistakes

Sun, 22 Aug, 2021

Fergus Finlay: O’Malley is due our respect, so it’s a pity what befell the party he started
Fergus Finlay: O’Malley is due our respect, so it’s a pity what befell the party he started
We all owe a debt to his courage and integrity, but the country is still recovering from the rightward lurch initiated by the PDs

Tue, 27 Jul, 2021

Graze diggers: Sheep uncover historic burial plots in Cork
Graze diggers: Sheep uncover historic burial plots in Cork
Woolly thinking helps reveal tombs that had been hidden for generations

Sun, 25 Jul, 2021

Clodagh Finn: Dublin’s street is ahead, but Cork’s Grafton St has a trump card
Clodagh Finn: Dublin’s street is ahead, but Cork’s Grafton St has a trump card
The Dublin thoroughfare might be the flashy showcase but the Cork street arguably has a greater claim to the name

Thu, 22 Jul, 2021

Clodagh Finn: Formidable medieval women deserve much more recognition
Clodagh Finn: Formidable medieval women deserve much more recognition
A new book recounts the under-told stories of successive countesses of Ormond and their daughters. Theirs are stories that deserve to be known more widely

Wed, 30 Jun, 2021

The political week in years gone by: A Eucharistic Congress, JFK's visit, Veronica Guerin's murder and a historic handshake
The political week in years gone by: A Eucharistic Congress, JFK's visit, Veronica Guerin's murder and a historic handshake
Deputy political editor, Elaine Loughlin, continues her weekly trawl through the archives and highlights some of the major political events which were making the headlines this week in years gone by.

Mon, 21 Jun, 2021

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